Evening Reading: Putting the Oughts to Bed

by Garnett Lee, Dec 31, 2009 6:00pm PST

If you'd told me last New Year's Eve that a year later I'd be writing the last Evening Reading of the decade on Shacknews I'd probably have looked at you dumbfounded. Sitting here doing it this evening I couldn't be more pleased with how things have worked out. Getting reacquainted with Shack has been great. We've got a great team, a great community, and fantastic support to carry us into 2010 and well beyond.

We've been posting our games to look forward to in 2010 today. I'll have mine coming tomorrow along with a collection of our resolutions for the New Year. Hope you'll take a moment to check them out and add to the conversation when time allows. Have a fun and safe New Year's Eve whatever your celebration plans.

I'll leave you with this great quote my friend Sterling tweeted earlier today: "The world isn't coming to an end. It's already tomorrow in Australia."

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What 2010 games do you consider to be day one purchases? For me it's probably going to be Super Street Fighter IV and Final Fantasy XIII.

Dec 31, 2009 6:06pm PST

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What 2010 games do you consider to be day one purchases? For me it's probably going to be Super Street Fi : mechanicalgrape
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  maybe Bad Company 2, if the shackbattles will be hard, long, and thick : RikiTiki2
  - Damn, forgot about BC2, I will add that as well. : mechanicalgrape
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  Bad Company 2, Starcraft 2, Mario Galaxy 2, SSF4 : Serpico74
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    I really doubt Starcraft 2 is going to come out this year. The others for sure. : JMro
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      SCII will but DiabloIII will probably be 2011. : jdmSlix
      
      Diablo 3 is definitely not 2010, SC2 maybe, but I'm being optimistic until I hear otherwise :) : Serpico74
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  STALKER: Call of Pripyat Yakuza 3 : roushimsx
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    day 1 STALKER purchases are a recipe for disaster : smax
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      This one is apparently surprisingly clean of any major bugs/crashes/scripting problems judging by the for... : roushimsx
      
      third time's a charm, I guess. : valael
    - It's been out in Russia for like 4 months by now, and it's been 2 months since its German release. Not to... : Autocrawler
- Bayonetta, Super Street Fighter IV, God of War III : sevogajre
- world of starcraft : smax
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  Does Rage come out in 2010? : The Wilhelm Scream
  - I sure hope so. :( : thrallie200
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  starcraft II, only because otherwise i'l get raped in the multi. The rest can wait. : filthysock
  - but of course sc2 may not be 2010 : filthysock
- Super Street Fighter IV, Mass Effect 2, Final Fantasy XIII : JMro
- Mass Effect 2, FFXIII, Starcraft II, Alan Wake (barring bad reviews), Mario Galaxy 2 : Yanks
- Reach! : Dave-A
- Super SF IV, Mass Effect 2, Cataclysm, Old Republic. : djustifier
- Bayonetta, Heavy Rain, Infinite Line : Borzoi
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  Mass Effect 2 : Ormsbee
  - unf : buzzbat
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  mass effect 2, diablo3 : stump
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    D3 in 2010? lol : breadsticks
    - YES IT WILL BE HERE : stump
  - ^^^ IAWTME2 : MagicWishMonkey
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  FF XIII Bayonetta The Last Guardian : grayscale
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    Is Last Guardian really going to be 2010? : mechanicalgrape
    - It's tenative but AFAIK it's supposed to be : grayscale
  - Forgot about No More Heroes 2 and Dark Void : grayscale
- Diablo 3. Right? I'm sticking with denial. : lpearl
- For me, no game is a day one purchase. : the archvile
- Star trek, won't anyone say star trek? : TexasGameJunkie
- Supreme Commander 2 Mass Effect 2 : kelbane
- Mass Effect 2, Dead Rising 2, new Batman if it's this year. A couple of other games i'm really looking ... : boredguy
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  MAFIA 2. Yikes, how has no one said this yet? : TaintedSyringe
  - I thought I would enter this thread and just copy the last 30 people by saying Mafia 2, but apparently no... : Durajim
  - :) yay : dahanese
  - This was my first thought, too. Man I can't wait for this game. : Matt Burris
- Bad Company 2, SC2, DIII, ME2 : Sink the Pink
- BF1943 PC! Bring back the shackbattle! : ventro
- Battlefield Bad Company 2, StarCraft 2, BioShock 2, Elemental: War of Magic, God of War 3, Crackdown 2, A... : wytefang
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  There are quite a few actually.
  
  Mass effect2
  God of war 3
  SSFIV
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  Anything blizzard does
  
  Dec 31, 2009 6:39pm PST
  
  There are quite a few actually. Mass effect2 God of war 3 SSFIV BF:BC2 Anything blizzard does : theWhite
- Only two I can think of. I already pre-ordered Bad Company 2 PC and most likely Mafia 2 will be a pre-ord... : RookieCAF
- Starcraft II Rage God of War III SSF IV : fleabug
- Super Street Fighter IV, Yakuza 3, Bad Company 2, Gran Turismo 5, Monster Hunter 3, Trico, FF14 : smackpiece
- Rage if it is a 2010 game, also Anything related to L4D2 or H-L2 : dognose
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  God of War III : snuff
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    This. If i have a PS3 by then. : sreyes22
    - I will make sure I do, I've had no real reason to get one until this comes out. : Halen
- Mass Effect 2 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat : deject
- Mario Galaxy 2. Rage. The Last Guardian. (hoping these last two actually come out this year..) : pillzer
- Starcraft 2, Diablo 3, Warcraft 4, and Bayonetta. : walker270
- Mass Effect 2 (wooo pc preorder), Mafia 2, maybe that cowboy game? : shirif
- Only one. Black Mesa Source. And guess what? Its free! (if it is in fact ever released) : Fighting_Dairy_Farmer
- At the moment I'm thinking that nothing annouced is going to be a day one purchase for me. Sure I might p... : baron calamity
- Bad Company 2, Bad Company 2, Bad Company 2, and Super Street Fighter IV (get your sticks now, while they... : Head Rush
- Bioshock 2 : BanjoBoy
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  What advantage does SSFIV have over SFIV, and what advantages to own both? : capt tripps
  - 10 new chars, all the fighters are being rebalanced, new multiplayer modes including quarter matches, tea... : mechanicalgrape
- BioShock 2 and, hopefully Batman: Arkham Asylum 2 and Demon's Souls 2. : David Craddock
- Bad Company 2, Mass Effect 2, anything non-WoW that Blizzard releases : TabsAZ
- Mass Effect 2 and bioshock2 : adsriordan
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 : watcherxp
- Battlefield Bad Company 2 : contentious roy
- Super Street Fighter IV, Dante's Inferno. : dodob
- BioShock 2, whatever Valve puts out. (If anything) : dmason
- Red Dead Redemption. : Ziz
- Bayonetta, Bad Company 2, Dante's Inferno, and probably Crackdown 2 and Red Dead Redemption and Treyarch'... : LemonJoose
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  Mass Effect 2. I had no Day One purchases last year. I will buy Mass Effect 2 three times. : Shadsy
  - Also, Natal. It's not a game, but still. : Shadsy
- Mass Effect 2, Bad Company 2, Super Street Fighter 4 : Link.
- Starcraft 2, DoW2: Chaos Rising exp, plus SW: ToR (if it comes out in 2010) : spaceyme
- Bayonetta, BF1943 PC, BF Bad Company 2 PC, GoW III, STALKER Call of Pripyat, Bioshock 2, The Last Guardia... : Darkfox76
- Final Fantasy XIII and God of War III : cornchak
- ME2 and FFXIII no question. If the Japanese version of Versus XIII hits, I'll grab that as well. Not m... : Vincent Grayson
- I'm impressed with the SSFIV love in this thread. Hopefully the shackfighter group will be really active... : JMro
- Splinter Cell : Conviction : dracodragon6
- Mass Effect 2. Maybe Bad Company 2 if ShackHype reaches critical mass. : Mmmmmoo
- Battlefield: Bad Company 2 : gyokuro
- Delta Force: Angel Falls... if it ever does actually come out... (last thing they posted was Q1 2010....... : megreedy
- None. : Nixx2004
- Battlefield Bad Company 2. : moe6
- Mass Effect 2, Bayonetta, Dante's Inferno. : monchipeters
- Global Agenda (the single most under-discussed game of 2010). Mass Effect 2 Red Dead Redemption Starcr... : lotus2133
- Mass Effect The Last Guardian Shadow Complex PC (lol) SSF4 PC (pls) Pac-Man Championship Edition PC (... : pyide
- Star Trek Online. First MMO I've ever given a shit about! :D : RevRaven
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  Alien vs. Predator Heavy Rain Final Fantasy Mass Effect 2 : freakynipples69
  - And Red Dead Redemption : freakynipples69
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  L4D3 bwahaha : goldaryn
  - haha hehe so funey rofl omgz : The Future
- Storms of War (PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE come out in 2010), Elemental (actually already preordered it), Mafia ... : valael
- Diablo III (if it comes out) : MaverickOrig
- Mass Effect 2, Bad Company 2 (both preordered already) StarCraft 2 (one can dream) : razorblade79
- Mass Effect 2, FFXIV : royalally
- While I almost never buy games when they launch, I suspect I'll fork out for Mafia 2 at once. Quite possi... : JesperKarlsson
- Ep3. I BELIEVE. (Also Mass Effect 2, Splinter Cell Conviction, Assassin's Creed 2, and Crysis 2.) : AlexW1203
- Deus Ex III : Broken Canoe
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  Fez, The Underside, Spelunky, Vampyre Story 2: A Batâ€™s Tale,Snapshot, Feist, Joe Danger, 3D Dot Ga : Kniggit
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    Heavy Rain, DeathSpank : Kniggit
    - Night Sky, Diamond Trust, : Kniggit
- White Knight Chronicles, Mass Effect 2, Dantes Inferno, GoW3, Bioshock 2, FFXIII : f4lln
- Red Dead Redemption, Mass Effect 2, Splinter Cell, Just Cause 2, Mafia 2, and possibly Bad Company 2. : Eric2025
- Mass Effect 2, Starcraft 2. Can't think of anything else atm. : rottdcorpse
- Super Street Figher 4, Starcraft 2, Super Street Fighter 4 again if they release it on PC : Benefit

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